For various reasons, I haven’t been getting much into the holiday spirit this year. This weekend has been sort of a turning point, and I’m feeling much more chipper these days.

On Friday night, me and Jag went out for comfort food at Elmo’s, did a little shopping on 9th Street, and went out to get a tree from the TROSA folks on Guess Rd.

The full moon was amazing,

Here’s our tree, Fir-gus, all decked out for the season. Jag picked out the gold Moravian star tree topper, which I love. Members of my immediate family will recognize most of the ornaments, I’m sure.

On Saturday, we did more shopping (yay Morgan Imports!) and then in the late afternoon headed over to Jeff and Michelle’s for gaming. It was a very fun session, as usual. Their doggie, Callay, reclined on her area of the sectional sofa with her usual dignified demeanor.

My Etsy store will be closing temporarily for a few months so I can relax over the holidays and get this move thing figured out. Last December, I’m not even sure I even knew what “roving” or “combed top” was. The fact that total strangers have been willing to buy my hand-dyed fiber from me still boggles my mind in a lot of ways. I’m really grateful to everyone who has been a customer and supported my little venture. Based on sales and my current inventory, I’ve created over 60 different fiber colorways. At at least 4oz each, that’s more than 15 lbs of fiber I’ve dyed since August! Not that much compared to people who do this as a serious business, but not bad for someone working out of her kitchen sink.

One of the advantages of the shop closing is that I get to dye for ME again, which I haven’t done for months. I recently got some really nice, soft Shetland fiber, which took the dyes much more vibrantly than I expected. Here they are, and they’re ALL MINE.